Category Archives: Online Education

There continues to be an overwhelming number of articles in the media concerning campus conversations about Coursera and other commercial online course providers. The most recent articles appear at the bottom of the list. Duke U.’s Undergraduate Faculty Derails Plan for … Continue reading →

“Because I share your vision of creating a world in which all have access to an excellent and empowering education, I would like to propose a new online course for you to make freely available through the Coursera platform. Its … Continue reading →

This has been a busy year for the Berkeley Faculty Association. Although Proposition 30 passed in the Fall it effectively amounted to a stay of execution: cancelling cuts planned for this year but doing nothing to ameliorate the impact … Continue reading →

In February, California Senate President Pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg introduced a bill that would open the door for massive open online courses (MOOCs), such as Coursera and Udacity, to offer courses for credit to public college and university students in … Continue reading →

A petition signed by over 1,000 UC faculty opposing SB520 was delivered to Senate Pro-Tem leader Darrel Steinberg (D-Sacramento), the author of the bill that, as formally amended yesterday, forces all three segments of California public higher education to accept online versions of heavily impacted courses for transfer credit. Continue reading →

After a decade of skyrocketing tuition, Sacramento politicians have seized on a new gimmick to avoid paying for the kind of low-cost, high quality college education California used to guarantee all its students. Continue reading →